Director of Talent Acquisition - Mission Critical

Overview

Suffolk is seeking a Director of Talent Acquisition within our Mission Critical business to lead a team of recruiters and shape the strategies that attract, engage, and hire exceptional talent across the organization.

This is a highly visible leadership role for someone who can translate business priorities and workforce plans into focused, measurable recruiting strategies. The Director will establish recruiting priorities, develop talent pipelines, guide execution, and ensure the team consistently delivers an outstanding experience for candidates and hiring leaders.

The Director will lead and develop a team of recruiters while maintaining strong, consultative relationships with business leaders and hiring managers. This individual will use data, market intelligence, and business insight to anticipate hiring needs, evaluate recruiting capacity, remove obstacles, and hold the team accountable for results.

The Director of Talent Acquisition is based at Suffolk’s Boston headquarters. On-site presence is required four days per week to coach and collaborate with the recruiting team and build strong relationships with hiring managers and business leaders. Employees have access to free parking, an on-site gym, a cafeteria, and other amenities that contribute to a welcoming culture and distinctive workplace environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of recruiters, establishing clear priorities, performance expectations, and accountability for results.
• Translate business objectives, workforce plans, and projected hiring demand into actionable talent acquisition strategies.
• Develop and execute recruiting strategies for immediate hiring needs and long-term talent pipelines.
• Partner closely with senior leaders and hiring managers to understand business priorities, labor-market challenges, and critical talent needs.
• Establish recruiting priorities and allocate team capacity based on business impact, hiring urgency, and available resources.
• Monitor recruiting funnels, pipeline health, candidate quality, hiring velocity, offer acceptance, and other key performance indicators.
• Use recruiting data and market intelligence to identify risks, recommend solutions, and provide leaders with actionable insights.
• Drive proactive sourcing and pipeline-development strategies, including the cultivation of passive candidates, former applicants, referrals, and silver-medalist talent.
• Oversee Suffolk’s portfolio of external recruiting partners, including RPO providers, staffing agencies, executive search firms, and other talent vendors.
• Establish clear performance expectations for external partners and evaluate results based on quality, speed, cost, candidate experience, and business impact.
• Determine when and how external recruiting resources should be deployed to supplement internal capacity or address specialized hiring needs.
• May be asked to handle high level searches depending upon team volume and bandwidth
• Promote consistent, equitable, and high-quality recruiting and selection practices across the organization.
• Ensure candidates receive a thoughtful, responsive, and best-in-class experience throughout the recruiting process.
• Identify opportunities to improve recruiting processes, technology, reporting, and operating rhythms.
• Remain current on talent-market conditions, competitive intelligence, emerging recruiting practices, and relevant technology.
• Represent Suffolk’s Core Values and employment brand throughout every candidate and stakeholder interaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• At least 10 years of progressive talent acquisition or recruiting experience, including significant full life-cycle recruiting experience.
• At least five years of experience leading, developing, and managing full cycle recruiting teams
• Demonstrated success creating and executing talent acquisition strategies in a complex, high-growth, or geographically dispersed organization.
• Experience translating workforce demand into recruiting priorities, team capacity plans, and measurable execution strategies.
• Strong knowledge of sourcing, passive-candidate engagement, talent pipelining, assessment, selection, and offer-closing practices.
• Demonstrated experience managing RPO providers, staffing agencies, executive search firms, or other external recruiting partners.
• Experience using recruiting metrics and funnel data to evaluate performance, identify risks, and influence business decisions.
• Strong executive presence and the ability to advise, influence, and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Experience recruiting within construction, engineering, real estate, infrastructure, or another highly competitive talent market is strongly preferred.
• Experience working with an applicant tracking system and recruiting technology ecosystem; iCIMS experience is a plus.

Necessary Attributes

• Demonstrates Suffolk’s Core Values of Passion, Integrity, Hard Work, Professionalism, and Caring.
• Strategic thinker who can also lead disciplined execution.
• People leader who sets clear expectations, provides meaningful coaching, and creates accountability.
• Highly collaborative and capable of building trusted relationships across functions and levels.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, changing priorities, and a fast-paced business environment.
• Strong sense of urgency with the judgment to distinguish immediate needs from long-term priorities.
• Data-driven and able to translate complex information into clear recommendations and actions.
• Skilled at balancing candidate experience, hiring-manager expectations, recruiting capacity, cost, and quality.
• Proactive, resourceful, and willing to take ownership of challenging business problems.
• Committed to confidentiality, sound judgment, professionalism, and discretion.
• Results-oriented with consistent attention to detail and follow-through.

Working Conditions

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods of time; talk or hear; perform fine motor, hand and finger skills in the use of a keyboard, telephone, or writing. The employee is frequently required to stands; walk; and reach with arms and/or hands. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. The employee will spend their time in an office environment with a quiet to moderate noise level. Job site walking.

EEO Statement

Suffolk provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, national origin, citizenship, genetic information, disability, protected veteran, gender identity, age or any other status protected by law.  This policy applies to recruiting, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, and all other terms and conditions of employment.  Suffolk will not tolerate any unlawful discrimination toward, or harassment of, applicants or employees by anyone at Suffolk, or anyone working on behalf of Suffolk.

Compensation Information

Where required by law, pay ranges can be found in Suffolk's job postings. Base Salary for this position is just one component of Suffolk’s total rewards package for employees. Actual salaries may be based on several factors including, but not limited to, a candidate's skill set, experience, education and other qualifications. Suffolk offers a comprehensive benefits package as part of its overall total rewards strategy. Salary ranges are reviewed regularly to reflect market trends.

About Suffolk

Suffolk is a national enterprise that builds, innovates, and invests. We provide value across the entire project lifecycle through our core construction management services and complementary business lines in real estate investment, design, self-perform construction, and technology start-up investment (Suffolk Technologies). By integrating data, artificial intelligence, and advanced technology through our Seamless Platform, we connect design, construction, and operations to deliver smarter, more predictable results and redefine how America builds. 

Suffolk – America’s Contractor – is a national company with more than $13 billion in annual revenue, 3,000 employees, and 17 offices, including Boston (headquarters), New York City, Miami, West Palm Beach, Tampa, Estero, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Herndon, U.S. Virgin Islands, and other key markets. Suffolk manages some of the most complex and transformative projects in the country, serving clients across healthcare, life sciences, education, gaming, aviation, transportation, government, mission critical, and commercial sectors. Suffolk is privately held and is led by founder, chairman and CEO John Fish. Suffolk is ranked #8 on ENR’s list of “Top CM-at-Risk Contractors.” For more information, visit www.suffolk.com and follow Suffolk on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram. 

At Suffolk, we believe that our total rewards program should offer you and your family the support you need when it matters most. That’s why we have created a program that provides employees with access to a wide variety of options that can be personalized to support you and your loved ones physically, emotionally, and financially. 

Benefits include, competitive salaries, auto allowances and gas cards for certain roles, access to market leading medical and emotional and mental health benefits, dental, and vision insurance plans, virtual care options for physical therapy and primary care, generous paid time off, 401k plan with employer match and access to expert financial resources, company paid and voluntary life insurance, tax deferred savings accounts, 10 backup daycare days each year, short- and long-term disability, commuter benefits and more.? For more information, click here.